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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: DCC -- JUST SAY NO! (was: The end of cassettes,
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:32:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.143250.9878@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov12.160517.26983@ <TONYB.92Nov16135326@oberon.juliet.ll.mit.edu> <1992Nov17.020210.879@cmkrnl.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.020210.879@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
-
- >I dunno. I can't see a DAT deck in, for instance, the dirty environment of a
- >typical car. Ever clean out a car cassette deck that's been in place for a few
- >years? Now try to imagine a helical-scan tape technology working in that
- >environment. I may be totally off base on this but I never saw DAT as a
- >serious competitor to the car cassette deck -- I just don't believe it could
- >ever be made reliable enough in that environment (unless you can get rid of the
- >cassette loading door :-).
-
- Well Jamie - the CD manufacturers saw the DAT as a threat at one time.
-
- They busted their buns pushing the CD in the formative years. They
- felt they had to get 5% of the recorded market by the time the car DATs
- hit the street or they would lose out to DAT.
-
- It's interesting to see how things worked out - and how CD took off
- faster than any other consumer audio format in history.
-
- As to DATs in cars all of the people I know who have DATs in their cars
- (see footnote) have had intermittent drop-out problems.
-
- A tape will play along, then drop out for a moment. If it is played
- again there is no problem. In my car - Honda CRX SI - it is mounted
- where the cassette hold once was. Not a real heat problem.
-
- My best friend has one in his 944 Turbo Porsche (with performance
- chips) and he feels that in his installation it is a heat build up
- problem. That I can see in his, but not mine. He got is race
- instructors license in that car at Sebring last week, and I'd venture a
- guess that it is the only racing machine with a DAT in it.
-
- ** footnote - when I said ALL the people that I know who have DATs - it
- is a small group. Two - Andy and I. Couldn't resist at the $299 price
- when they were closed out - Sony DTX-10 (??) :-)
-
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- Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org bill.vermillion@oau.org
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